As many as 200 people held signs and chanted outside an Ohio Wal-Mart where a young man with anair rifle was fatally shot by police.(Fox News - U.S., 30 August 2014)

Police officers have arrested three teenagers and a man after a three-year-old girl was shot with anair riflewhile playing in the park.(The Independent - U.K. News, 28 August 2015)

Daniel Rodriquez, 38, from Kidlington, Oxon, (pictured) armed himself with anair rifle and an imitation handgun as his daughters slept in their beds.(Daily Mail - News, 24 January 2014)

Ben Wragge was fatally struck by theair riflewhile playing with a group of boys at a friend's house in the village of Thurston, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.(Daily Mail - News, 8 June 2017)

A Florida deputy charged with manslaughter in the 2013 fatal shooting of a man who was carrying an unloadedair rifle cannot delve into secret grand jury proceedings, a judge ruled Thursday.(Fox News - U.S., 3 March 2016)

Feng Shou Yin, 35, from Birmingham, filmed himself blasting pigeons, blackbirds, a starling and a magpie with anair rifle and a BB gun from his bedroom window before posting the footage online.(Daily Mail - News, 11 May 2015)

The father of a man fatally shot by police as he held anair rifleinside an Ohio Wal-Mart says he believes his son was murdered, despite a special grand jury declining to criminally charge the officers.(The Associated Press in CBC News - World, 26 September 2014)

Officers' actions were justified in the fatal shooting of a man holding anair rifleinside an Ohio Wal-Mart store, a grand jury determined Wednesday -- using surveillance video the slain man's family said shows the shooting was completely unjustified.(Fox News - U.S., 25 September 2014)

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A pet cat shot by an air rifle in Manitoba was saved by its belly fat.(CBC News - Canada, 5 July 2013)

Virginia Thrasher, 19, finished first over all in women’s 10-meter air rifle.(The New York Times - Sports, 6 August 2016)

A baby boy is shot in the head with an air rifle in a "potentially negligent act".(BBC News - U.K. News, 2 July 2016)

The 21-year-old from Didcot was as surprised as anyone when he won a bronze in the 10m air rifleon Friday.(Daily Mail - Sport, 29 July 2014)

Britain's Matt Skelhon wins gold in the final of the 50m air rifle event at the IPC European Shooting Championships.(BBC Sport, 26 October 2013)

Britain's Matt Skelhon misses out on a medal in the final of the 10m air rifle at the IPC European Shooting Championships.(BBC Sport, 22 October 2013)

American teenager Ginny Thrasher won the first gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro for the 10-meter air rifle event.(CNN - World News, 6 August 2016)

A 21-year-old shooter from India and her compatriot have claimed gold and silver in the women's 10m air rifle at the Commonwealth Games.(Sydney Morning Herald - World, 26 July 2014)

Ben Smith, 28, of Fareham, was shooting rabbits when his friend pointed the air rifle at him believing it was empty - and pulled the trigger.(Daily Mail - Health, 13 May 2016)

A Canadian cat was recovering Saturday after being shot with an air rifle, but its owner said it would have been worse if not for its fat belly.(UPI - Odd News, 6 July 2013)

Salma Hayek's neighbor fired an air rifle toward a dog that had come into his garage and fought with his dogs, authorities in Washington said Monday.(NBC News Entertainment, 29 February 2016)

Australian shooter Dane Sampson failed to make a mark on the 10m air rifle final at the Commonwealth Games, which was eventually won by Abhinav Bindra.(Sydney Morning Herald - World, 25 July 2014)

Franky Mills, 19, of Farncombe, Surrey, went on a shooting spree between March 15 and April 1 with a 0.22 caliber air rifle, Guildford Crown Court heard.(Daily Mail - News, 6 September 2016)

A grand jury in Ohio has decided not to indict police officers in the August shooting death of a 22-year-old man carrying an air rifle at a Walmart store.(CNN - U.S. News, 24 September 2014)

College student Ginny Thrasher scored an upset win in the women's 10-meter air rifle finals, giving the United States its first medal of the Rio Olympics.(UPI - Sports News, 6 August 2016)

Veterinarians worked to save the life of the 50-year-old male orangutan for several hours, but could do little after discovering 22air rifle bullets riddled throughout its body.(Daily Mail - News, 4 November 2015)

An Ohio grand jury found that police officers’ actions were justified in the fatal shooting of a man holding an air rifle at a Walmart store in early August, a special prosecutor said.(The New York Times - U.S. News, 24 September 2014)

Matthew Dodd-Fleming, 17, tried to get dogs to bite a newsagent, flashed his bare buttocks to school staff and fired an air rifle through a window in the village of Rhydyfelin, near Pontypridd, South Wales.(Daily Mail - News, 4 February 2015)

The discovery of an old British air rifle at the Williamstown home of divisive former detective Denis Tanner has raised serious questions about a mysterious fire at a Mansfield farm more than two decades ago.(Sydney Morning Herald - National, 27 July 2014)

A neighbor of Salma Hayek's Washington state ranch told investigators he shot at the actress' beloved Belgian Malinois with an air rifle because it was in his garage and fighting with his own dogs, investigators said Monday in finding the shooting justified.(The Denver Post - Entertainment, 29 February 2016)

Two years after a white policeman fatally shot a 22-year-old black man in an Ohio Wal-Mart who was carrying an air rifle that he had picked up from a store shelf, the U.S. Department of Justice has yet to conclude its investigation and won't say why, despite the family's push for an update.(Fox News - U.S., 5 August 2016)